Mortality in Zambia, 1960

Zambia
1960
Life expectancy: 50.6
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Zambia was 50.6 years in 1960: 51.7 for women and 49.6 for men, a gap of 2.1 years. 52,029 people died; 11.5% of them were 65 or older and 58.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
50.6
Women
51.7
Men
49.6
Life expectancy at 65
13.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
112.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
204.5
Deaths
52,029
Deaths per 1,000 people
16.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
317
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
283
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0114.15130.6451.749.6
1-427.4028.0256.855.3
5-96.366.2359.157.6
10-143.763.4255.954.3
15-193.953.7652.050.2
20-244.815.0547.946.1
25-295.415.2944.142.2
30-345.865.7540.238.3
35-396.456.7136.334.3
40-447.208.0632.430.4
45-498.0810.0328.526.6
50-5410.5013.4624.622.8
55-5914.1118.0120.819.2
60-6421.8426.6917.115.8
65-6933.7439.8313.812.7
70-7453.2661.1110.89.9
75-7980.9893.498.47.6
80-84121.18141.426.45.7
85-89180.17210.964.84.2
90-94254.17295.463.63.2
95-99346.86400.252.82.4
100+456.68515.782.21.9